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Survey reveals tenant’s priorities in forthcoming general election
| Author: Craig Bees | Published: 26th November 2019 09:49 |
Survey reveals tenant’s priorities in forthcoming general election
Earlier this month you may have heard about Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn launching his party’s general election campaign with a scathing attack on “dodgy landlords.”
But his claims have been questioned by a survey which puts housing fourth in the list of tenant’s concerns for the forthcoming election.
In a survey of tenants, the National Landlords Association (NLA) found that Brexit, climate change and the environment as well as education were the top three issues for tenants as they prepare to cast their vote. Housing was ranked next in their list of concerns, followed by immigration, the NHS, police and crime, tax, transport and the welfare system.
The findings show that, contrary to popular belief, most tenants enjoy a very positive relationship with their landlords. When asked how confident they were in their current landlord or agent’s professionalism, nearly a quarter answered “very confident”, with 69% marking them seven or above, on a scale of 1-10. Only 3% said they were “not confident” in their landlord or agent’s professionalism.
This data was corroborated by other findings as more than 80% of tenants said that they had a positive view of their current landlord. Sixty eight per cent admitted that they had “never had cause to complain” while 16% noted that while they had registered a complaint, the landlord or agent subsequently “resolved the situation to my satisfaction”.
This perhaps reflects the fact that landlords have resisted the temptation to raise rents over the past year: nearly three-quarters of tenants reported that their rents had “stayed the same” while some even revealed that their rent had actually fallen over the past 12 months. Furthermore, 86% of tenants had never been served with either a Section 21 or Section 8 over the past five years.
Richard Lambert, Chief Executive Officer of the NLA, said: “The private rented sector is not the big political issue that some tenants’ groups claim it to be. The idea that tenants and landlords are constantly engaged in some kind of bitter dispute is just another example of fake news.
“When tenants go to the ballot box to cast their vote next month, housing won’t be top of their agenda. That’s because the majority of tenants are perfectly happy with their rental property and perfectly happy with their landlord.”
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